Raf Simons for Dior - My favorites

Raf Simons presented his first ready-to-wear collection for fashion house Christian Dior since his appointment back in April.
Jessica Bumpus wrote an interesting story on his show, see here including all the photos of the show.

My favorites for spring-summer 2013 are:

Inez & Vinoodh and Jo Ratcliffe for Nina Ricci

The winter 2012 campaign for Nina Ricci is captured by Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin featuring Kati Nescher, with amazing animation designed and directed by Jo Ratcliffe.

A spectacular party in Paris: Anna Dello Russo at H&M

Yesterday night, at the peak of Paris fashion week, an extravagant party launched the AdR at H&M collection with theatrical flair. Hosted by H&M together with fashion icon Anna Dello Russo, the Paradis Ball took place in Paris famed cabaret nightclub Paradis Latin.

 



The glitzy party married fashion, performance and a live showcase by music star Azealia Banks.

Friends and fashionistas, including Olivier Theyskens, Rachel Zoe, Jefferson Hack, Poppy Delevingne, Peter Dundas and super models Karlie Kloss, Constance Jablonski, Liya Kebede and Isabeli Fontana gathered to celebrate.

Staying true to AdR’s belief that fashion is something that makes you dream, the eccentric party was the perfect backdrop to present the unabashedly glamorous, playful line of jewelry, shoes and accessories that Anna Dello Russo designed for H&M, which will be on sale from October 4, 2012, in 140 stores worldwide and online.

“We wanted to give the guests an unforgettable experience: an ever-evolving night that started on the red carpet and ended on the dancefloor. We created an amusing cabaret show that, while being pure Parisian entertainment, could also function as a metaphor of the carousel of fashion. There was a vogueing performance, too, and I had an army of mini AdR around me, wearing the collection, just for the sake of something unexpected. Excess for me means success”, says Anna Dello Russo.

“It is great to bring eccentricity to a wider public, and that’s what H&M is doing with this collaboration. It was truly a fun night”, says Caroline de Maigret.

“People love Anna: she is fearless, she loves the stage and she is a great communicator. Anna is totally pop: Andy Warhol would have loved her, I am sure”, says Giovanna Battaglia.

“The Paradis Ball was the perfect way to launch a collection that is all about fantasy and decoration. It was eye-catching, with an optimistic injection of energy that I found particularly inspiring. We hope that our customers are excited about the launch”, says Margareta van den Bosch, Creative Advisor at H&M.

 

 

Source: Press release

Spotted in Kolonaki @ Chopard

Thursday evening at the cocktail party of Chopard to celebrate Vogue Fashion's Night Out in the center of Athens Vicky Kaya and Eleni Makri were spotted.

Vicky Kaya



Eleni Makri, editor-in-chief of Vogue Hellas, in a dress by Mary Katrantzou

Photos: Courtesy of Chopard by Studio Panoulis

Casual looks at Vogue Fashion's Night Out in Athens

Thursday evening in the center of Athens Vogue Hellas celebrated for the 4th time Fashion's Night Out. Greek celebrities were spotted in casual outfits.

Patricia Milic Peristeri

Tzeni Botsi

Photos: Courtesy of Davlas & Partners by Papadakis Press

VFNO at Ralph Lauren in Athens

Thursday evening in Kolonaki, a quarter of Athens, Vogue Hellas celebrated Fashion's Night Out. The store of Ralph Lauren at Voukourestiou street participated at this party and here some photos.

 

 

Among the guests were Vasiliki Tsekou, Angela Evripidi, Patricia Peristeri, Maria Korinthiou, Noni Dounia and Evelina Papantoniou.

 

Photos: Courtesy of Davlas & Partners by Papadakis Press

Spotted in Milan

Anna Dello Russo and her pet Cucciolina are spotted in Milan for the fashion week and the promotion of her accessories line for H&M.

 

Photos: Courtesy of H&M by Marco Erba (SGP Italia)

It's all about fabrics at Fashion Erotokritos

Last week I visited the shop of Nikos and Giorgios Kimionis in the center of Athens better known as Fashion Erotokritos.

At their shop a lot of greek and cypriot fashion designers buy fabrics but also if you know how to sew or know somebody who wants to do it for you, you can buy your own piece of fabric.

Every week Nikos and Giorgos bring new fabrics to their store, so everything you visit it you will find something new! From woven to single knitwear!

In a friendly environment you can have a look at the endless fabrics they import.

Here my photoreview of my visit.

And some fabrics for coming season...

Nikos was so busy I missed him for taking a photo of him, so you have to wait until next time!

Photos by my smartphone...

Hanaa Ben Abdesslem and Elettra Wiedermann for Lancôme's Midnight Roses

Hanaa Ben Abdesslem and Elettra Wiedermann are captured by Mario Testino for Lancôme's Midnight Roses.

A night with the Midnight Roses...

Just like the purple rose, they blossom as the clock strikes midnight...

Exuding astounding magnetism, Hanaa Ben Abdesslem and Elettra Wiedermann embody the 'Midnight Roses' for Lancôme's new autumn 2012 make-up collection. Adorned with shades of purple on lips and nails. With radiant complexions and intense, structured eyes; a magical night lies ahead .

An image captures a decisive moment: the moment when, swathed in purple light that seems to conjure all the mysteries of the Parisian night, the most beautiful women slip through the doors of the city's most secret address.

For a night of untold possibilites...

The range:

 

Source: press release

Anna Dello Russo at H&M: My favorites

In previous posts you could read about the accessories collection by Anna Dello Russo at H&M, read here the press release with photos by Mert & Marcus.

Here are my favorites:

A sensational fashion week day with Anna Dello Russo at H&M

Unabashedly glamorous, precious and playful the Anna Dello Russo collection for H&M is a celebration of fashion and fun. Glistening in gold and vibrant hues of turquoise and orange, this sensational range expresses ADR’s love for ornament, her taste for excess and amusement.

“Accessories are vital” says the legendary fashion icon “Not only they allow you to play with fashion however you like, marking your outfits with a personal touch. They are also an essential tool to give new life to what you already have in your wardrobe: wear a necklace, a bracelet and earrings, hold a clutch and top it all off with a hat, and everything becomes new. Accessories are like vitamins to fashion: you should use them liberally as such”.

“There is something feisty and over the top in this collection” adds Margareta van den Bosh, creative advisor H&M. “Our customers will find it incredibly exciting and extravagant, with a precious vintage feel. Mostly gold, it is truly spectacular: these pieces will give a new life to everyone’s wardrobe. The idea is to have luxury that you can play with, at an affordable price”.

The collection features jewelry, sunglasses, shoes, bags. However, its starting point is a suitcase: a turquoise trolley with gilt motifs.

Ad campaign by Mert & Marcus

“I wanted to recreate the excitement of the fashion weeks tour, when you enter a dreamy fashion bubble that is almost like a parallel reality. I tried to capture that sense of freedom, joy and excitement. Besides, when we travel we always want to bring our special pieces with us. “I like the idea of a trolley that can contain the whole collection and is complete with a crown-shaped tag: airports will be less grey and impersonal if you bring such a token of travel-ware with you. It’s like a dash of fairy tale magic, or Alice’s white rabbit as a door to a new dimension” says Anna.”

Outstanding jewelry is the main focus. Exuberantly Mediterranean in both ornate shapes and shiny colors, slightly surreal thanks to the snakes and crocodiles that coil around neck and wrists, it features gilded chains swarming with pendants, stone earrings with an antique feel, decorative wristbands with the preciousness of real jewels. The same ornamental opulence carries on in the classy clutches: Cucciolina, Anna’s fashionable dog, makes a cameo appearance in the closure of the turquoise one. For the needs of any aspiring front-row fashionista there is theatrical sunglasses, all gilt frames, chains and animal appliqué, and shoes sporting a trademark stiletto heel, from sandal to tight-high dominatrix boots. A show-stopping feather hat completes the offer.

This festive effort is an ode to fashion as a means to reinvent daily life. “My message is: use accessories like a personal touch, as an amusing way to revitalize your life and wardrobe: you will turn an ordinary day into a sensational fashion week day” says Anna.

The project also has more personal implications. “Accepting this challenge has allowed me to give my personal and deeply felt contribute to the rebirth of Japan, a country I am strongly bonded with” she concludes. “Thereafter, a part of my fee will be donated to the Japanese branch of Red Cross International”.

 

And see here my favorites.

 

Source: Press Release

Marine Vacth in François Ozon’s new film, Jeune et Jolie

Actress and Yves Saint Laurent Beauté ambassadress, Marine Vacth, will be the leading actress of François Ozon’s new film, Jeune et Jolie.

 

 

 

Young up-and-coming star of the French cinema, Marine Vacth met critical success in 2011 for her role in Ma part du Gâteau by Cédric Klapisch. She is again on screen, now as the heroine of the famous French filmmaker François Ozon’s much anticipated fourteenth film.

In Jeune et Jolie, Marine Vacth will play opposite the immense actress Charlotte Rampling, as well as Géraldine Pailhas and Frédéric Pierrot (Best Supporting Actor nominee at the 2012 César Ceremony for his role in the film Polisse by Maïwenn). The shooting has started very confidentially in the South of France and we will have to wait until beginning of 2013 to discover on screen Yves Saint Laurent Beauté’s beautiful and talented Parisienne spokesperson.

Jeune et Jolie will complete François Ozon’s very rich and diverse filmography that brilliantly alternates comedy and thriller, sometimes playing at the borders of science fiction. His career is marked by numerous successes such as Sous le Sable (2001), 8 femmes (2002), Swimming Pool (2003) or more recently Potiche (2011), and the most famous actors have been caught in his lens, from Catherine Deneuve to Isabelle Huppert, Fanny Ardant to Gérard Depardieu.

Please note as well that Marine Vacth will hold, end of 2012, one of the leading roles in Alexandre Arcady’s new film, Ce que le Jour Doit a la Nuit.

 

Source: Press Release

Known and “The Unknown” by Peter Lindbergh

Galleria Carla Sozzani in Milan, Italy, presents an exhibition with the works by Peter Lindberg from today until the 4th of November 2012.

Peter Lindbergh is one of the most renowned fashion photographers. Assistant, for two years, to the Düsseldorf-based photographer, Hans Lux, in 1978 he goes to Paris and starts working for Italian Vogue, then the English, French, German, and American editions.

His style and his interpretation of fashion trends are unique for the time: no exotic locations, nor special props, but pure simplicity. He shoots the most popular models in ordinary spaces, with the natural attitude of any woman in usual moments.

Behind his work his philosophy: "When someone creates something: a painting, a poem, a photograph, the creativity comes from an idea, from a feeling, from emotion, or from a combination of ideas, feelings and emotions that are somehow ‘reborn’ from all our experiences and perspectives.
Creativity is the desire to express ourselves.. " His references - experiences and culture - are linked to German Expressionism, cinema and visual arts, and to the observation of the contemporary world with all its concerns and anxieties.

Galleria Carla Sozzani presents a retrospective of Peter Lindbergh in two series: Known - Images of Women, a selection of 40 iconic images shooted for several publications like Vogue, Interview, Allure, Harper's Bazaar, Marie-Claire. In these pictures, Lindbergh always gives an intimate portrait of the beautiful women he photographs, also when he works with fashion and cinema celebrities such as Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Milla Jovovich, Kristen McMenamy, Kate Moss, Charlotte Rampling, Catherine Deneuve. Images of Women describes the essence of his creative professional work in fashion.

"The Unknown" is a personal project and research which has been exposed for the first time in 2011 at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing. A visual journey with no order or chronology, going through decades of images, inspired by his recent movie series "Invasion". A timeless story in a visual space that mixes the glamour of Hollywood, the German cinema by Fritz Lang and the science fiction. With this work, Peter Lindbergh presents a fragment of daily life, full of enigma, unpredictable events and risks. His intense images reveal the fears and concerns for dangers that people only suppose. The main character of the story is the photo-model Milla Jovovich who began working with Lindbergh at the age of thirteen.

The opening hours are:
Monday, 3.30 pm – 7.30 pm
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday 10.30 am – 11.00 pm
Sunday 10.30 am – 7.30 pm

Galleria Carla Sozzani, corso Como 10 – 20154 Milano, Italia

HIS BIOGRAPHY

Peter Lindbergh, born Peter Brodbeck, is a German photographer and filmmaker born on November 23, 1944 in Leszno, Poland (the city was German between 1939 and 1945 and called Reichsgau Wartheland). He currently mantains residences in Paris, Manhattan and Arles. Peter Lindbergh spent his childhood in Duisburg, after a basic school education he worked as window dresser for the Karstadt and Horten department stores in Duisburg. At the age of 18, he moved to Switzerland, eight months later he went from Lucern to Berlin where he took evening courses at the Academy of Arts. He hitchhiked to Arles in the footsteps of his idol, Vincent Van Gogh. After several months in Arles, he started a two years journey through Spain and Marocco. Back to Germany, he studied painting at the College of Art in Krefeld (North Rhine-Westphalia). In 1969 while still a student, he exhibited his work for the first time at the Galerie Denise René - Hans Mayer.

In 1971 his interest turned toward photography and for two years he worked as assistant to the Düsseldorf-based photographer, Hans Lux. In 1978 Peter Lindbergh moved to Paris and started working internationally for Vogue, first the Italian, then the English, French, German, and American Vogue; The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone.

In 1988, Anna Wintour is editor in chief at American Vogue and signed Lindbergh for the magazine. He shot Miss Wintour’s first, then the revolutionary American Vogue, November 1988, cover. He made portraits of Catherine Deneuve, Mick Jagger, Charlotte Rampling, Nastassja Kinski, Tina Turner, John Travolta, Madonna, Sharon Stone, John Malkovich and many others. When Lindberg was put under contract to the American Harper’s Bazaar by Liz Tilberis in 1992 she made her editor sign a seven-figure check.

His first book, 10 Women by Peter Lindbergh, a black and white portfolio of ten top contemporary models, was published in 1996 and had sold more than 100,000 copies as of 2008. Twice he has shot the Pirelli calendar, in 1996 and in 2002. The latter, which featured actresses instead of models for the first time, was shot on the back lot of Universal Studios and was described by Germaine Greer as “Pirelli’s most challenging calendar yet”. There have been dozens of exhibitions featuring Peter Lindbergh’s work around the world since his photography was included in the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Shots of Style exhibition in London in 1985.

After its Paris debut, Comme des Garçons exhibited a solo show of photographs by Peter Lindbergh at “Centre George Pompidou” in Paris in 1986. Peter Lindbergh's Smoking Women, first shown in the Galerie Gilbert Brownstone in Paris in 1992, travelled to Tokyo's Bunkamura Gallery in 1994 and the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt in 1996. The same year, prompted by the reaction to the 1994 show, the Bunkamura Museum of Art accorded Peter Lindbergh a retrospective, In 1997, Berlin's Hamburger Bahnhof showed Peter Lindbergh: Images of Women, which toured museums in Hamburg, Milan, Rome, and Vienna in 1998, followed by showings at the International Photography Festival in Japan in 1999 and 2000, The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow in 2002, making Peter the first photographer exhibited by the Pushkin. The Metropolitan Museum showed the exhibition Models As Muse in 2009. In 2010, his exhibition, On Street, at the C/O (Berlin) counted 90,000 visitors. In April and May 2011, the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, China exhibited The Unknown, Lindbergh’s huge installation, which was curated by Jerome Sans and attracted more than 70,000 visitors.

FILMMAKER

Peter Lindbergh has made a number of films, including the 1991 documentary, Models - The Film, shot in New York with the Supermodels. Inner Voices (1999), a thirty-minute drama documentary examining self-expression in method acting, won the prize for Best Documentary at the International Festival of Cinema in Toronto in 2000. In 2001, Lindbergh directed an experimental half-hour film for Channel 4 on his friend Pina Bausch, entitled Pina Bausch - Der Fensterputzer. Shown off at Cannes in 2007, his latest film Everywhere at Once, co-directed with Holly Fisher, had its world premiere at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival in New York. Narrated by Jeanne Moreau, this haunting, vaguely-troubling film consists of refilmed Lindbergh photographs, many of them unpublished, interwoven with excerpts from Tony Richardson's film Mademoiselle.

BOOKS

10 Women by Peter Lindbergh Foreword by Karl Lagerfeld, (1996) Peter Lindbergh: Portfolio Interview by Dr. Antonio Ria, (1999) Peter Lindbergh: Stories Foreword by Wim Wenders, (2002) Peter Lindbergh: Images of Women Introduction by Martin Harrison, (2004) Peter Lindbergh: Untitled 116 (2006), Peter Lindbergh: On Street (2010) Peter Lindbergh: The Unknown (2011)

AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS

In 1995 and 1997 he was appointed Best Photographer at the International Fashion Awards in Paris. In 1995 he became an Honorary Member of the German Art Directors Club. In 1996 he received the Raymond Loewy Foundation Award. In 2005 he was awarded the Lucie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Fashion Photography.

Source: Press release